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letters rocoived by The Gommdnor cpmmenting
on currents events: ' .-, ..$&
TIMtt TO MAKE. DISTINCTION ;
'cohimbus, Ohio, Nov. -23: '120.-'
Mydoar Mr Bilam.
wjlii,tt w .K-twifin, ni, ,,. TUnvn'toi" it was my .nappy privilege last niguc iwiniie
rnS Tl.f rS? rt!5 ?.! 11 w w? J fi ' me with mo fchV November issue of "TheW
EJSftSn SrtS iSU? 7 hnM?? A iJ2 IaS ? i?niSv- -" and I want to congratulate you and com
road tho front pago. I hast on to write you. I havov -!-, ,,- n.v tun ,l.iA i, ? a n v u,.f
road your article under DES13RVB am". tZt&n i 2V& ?$ & m,i StiJ?'
wiTKiM nT7aA-Mtti , . particularly wa& I plesaed with your article,
IHWW uuuaixijU. , . 'Tlaoing the Blanie." Also I was pleased with
iou; nayo stated tno situation c early, .Tie -te arUcle headed "Deserve to WinThen Or-
means that the Democratic party must )?o out
of existence and a, receiver will havo to bo ap
pointed to distribute its effects,
I am with you hand and heart for any pur
pose and for any work that means the elimina
tion of Wail Street influences iri;the control and
management oi the affairs of th,e Democratic
party, Draft jrie whon my soivlces'arj heeded.
John Y. Peete, Toifhosseo. I jam .. enclosing;
you money order for flHo'renew my subscription
for tho noxt 12 months, nd to express not ojaly
my appreciation and enjoyment of every lino in ',
your columns, but my ad niratlon 'arid esteem
of your brilliant and -gifted and patriotic editor
William Jennings Bryan, and the sentiment of
the whole country is thaUhe Js'thp incomparable
thamplon of the ptfrtple'afr4g1ilts, ;& the,. great
est American as well as' tho foremtrila teaman
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in the world.
Twelve months airo. I wrote von. suercrAKftnf?.
and giving my reasons therefor, for him "to be
tho nominee for president by the Democratic
convention held last June, and the ho was the
only man whom the Deniobrats could 'elect.. His
over.v utterance in the columns of this (Novem
ber) issue of The Commoner are the rallying
Calls to the great hosts pf democracy, men and
Women, for the greatnbattle of 1924. And if you
will permit me to prophesy, and to name a
winning ticket for next time, 1 will name Wil
liam J BryariT for president, and Gov'omor Mal
colm J&. Patterson, for vlce-prosidentjh scion of
the tortli, ivnd 7 scln of the South), both
ppwerljjy-dobate, graceful,; ' and gifted , in.
speech, tajunound on every prjniiple of consti
tutional government, their leadership will prove
invincible. On the opposite side of this page, I
am sending you about dozen ham'os as probable
"subscribers, to your paper the ..greatest" ex
ponernt' of democracy
A. A. Meredith, West Virginia. Noticing an. .
appeal to men who would be willing' to help re-'
habilitate the Democratic party in their' respec
tive counties and states, In. The Commoner of
Novenrtier issue, I will venture my assistance
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mind of the real Democrat of the country as
.well as the real Republican.
'This is' the time for us to make a distinction
.between mere place hunters or rather office
hunters and real Democrats. Some years ago I
had occasion to make u distinction between a
statesman and a politjcian,.anoM put it in these
. words and .1 believe you might sometime see fit
to. use it. Ih your "Commoner" column: "A states
man is 'a .man who lies awake nights thinking
-' and 'planning 'how he; may do something for
everybody, while a politician is a man who lies
awakq nights thinking and planning how he may.
do everybody for something.. IsnH It "a happy
expression of the difference between some of the,
menvhp undertook to represent the Democratic
'party in the la$t campaign and the .men wjio je-
v fused to prostitute themselves to being all things
fto all meiir . .
Your address entitled "BFother or Brute' is
one of the greatest and one of the most effective
you have oyer made.- I remember the effect and
the impression you created when you talked to
the Northwestern Hw students and I am happy
. in flhdihg the substance of this address in this
November issue of "The Commoner I wish
you could deliver it to a thousand different
audiences in the next two or three years, It-will
give you one of the finest opportunities and -.it
will make it easy to determine who shall be pur
leader from this time on. The talk about the
. leadership ot certain other individuals died "a
bornin." Nothing is .juite so flat as talk about
.. apybody's leadership except your own among the
real Democrats in this part of tho state of Ohio.
.It would be just as, reasonable to talk about the
future leadership of .Alton B. Parker as to, talk
about the leadership o any other individual as
agalnstryourself. ; - .. . :t-.
- Ypurs forever and a da; V
'. y .r AN OHIO DEMOCRAT,- '
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"" iieither by"4 expedience jqt oppdrtuniim;' Sincere
and ih'f luehtial 'Oeniopnifrt Who Wfere lnstrhment
id in making Wilson preaident were ndf phly
denied any partiefpatipu in the admlni'stratlpn
which they brought into being, but were haras
sed' and persecuted -with a despicable male-vol-enco
that finds no parallel in our political history.
His absolute disregard pf the mandates of his
party uhdoutedly drove many Dempcratsjput pf
their party and repelled thpu$ands pf maturing
vpters His Insistence, onthe repeal p Tthe
Panama Canal tolls hlllrin dtifnnance pf ihealti
more platform, and hls autocratic suspension ot
parts of! the Jones shipping act, and bis pqrsecu-r
tibn ,of fiomocratic congressmen whb .disagreed
with him Pn the. former, were hut a repetition of
bio defiance as goyernpr pf New Jersey, when ;he
imperiously brushed aside as of no cousiqlulSca
the emphatic mandate of the voters of Hudson
county oh the .matter of jury-.reform, kept' the,
State legislature of New-Jersey in a seething tur
moil for two years and, after he had been in
vested with the tremendous powers of-the presi
dency; dragooned- a puerile governor and a sub
seryienjt legislature into- enacting thV pesent
.abortive ..statute, which has proven to' be -almost
faciha instrument of corruption. ',
Jn X 8 96, 1 9 0 0 and ; 9 0 8 we f ought a good fight
and went down to honorable defeat, preserving
urfdefiled and unaltered the exalted principles
of democracy, and after each defeat furbished
up pur weapons in eagei anticipation , of the
next battle, inspired with ardent hope ;-6f: -victory
by the righteousnness. of our cause. But .
What prespect is before us now? A gallant army
with mercenaries in the trenches and'raitors '
Pi inepmpetents at general headquarters as
small: chance of. reorganization after a general
rout. To the patrolts who have survivedwe
must, look for- the inspiration and -energy:' to
reassemble our scattered forces ad7Pnc? again
raise the standard pf True 0empcracyv under
which, may gather the npw : scattered fprces fpf ?a
great and historic party. " '.. -wrs
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GhasVA. Bwell, Michigan. I write to "ttttfk
yS toy theVbrave andr n6ble tttiySumve-'
taWavrior our, great 1nfr ofvliberty bp called-"
The Scriptures say they love arlcne rather: '
' tliarii light becaulie the'ir?-deeds are evil, Y-waV
at. the Fort Street PreabyterXan church, and 1
enjoyed your address sP vell that my heart leaps
Within mfe, and when I think of thG,jEuritan4rid'
thd 'way they founded our great eastern" heihis-
pheredn principles of hbttriess untaS'Lorri;
oh, Mr. Bryan I am with you any time yoifwant
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'alnGethe'' election;' Thp people' were not so much
concerned, about the league. I believe the great ;
though humble as It may be. t have always been W1'11 J the peppiedo not want ;any league'
a groat mirer of W. J, Bryan havinc cast " with W foreign .cpuntry, but thatnpt
m first vote for him in .180? 1 havvnf W oOhe wholosalet Slaughter 'of the.Dmo,. ;
for him three times and have, always voted the
Democratic ticket though at-sorite elections"!
had to hold my nos,to do it, -
X am willing to dd my part to make the DemOr
cratic party .a real party of the people, for the
people but X am not willing to sacrifice my
country to satisfy the ambition of spmo selfish
man whp thinks more of sqme other country,
than of his own: a, man whose heart is in Eng
Inud or Wall Street -while his hands; are in the
pockets of the American people;
X am willing to go with .r. Bryan on his sug
gestions, "Some Needed Reforms,"1 printed on,
page two of Npvember Issue. I think those re
forms mentioned are sorely needed, especially"
the amendment- referring to the referendum on
all wars except when' in actual invasion. I thinly
it couljl be amended somewhat and made strong
er oy inserting tno Bentimant. t.hnf nn nddanf
crats, to mace it snort, It was the universal r
unopularity of the -war itself. A.
The -Democrats got just what was-coming to
them a complete thrashing and-vthe soldier
boys and their parents, did it an'd the war lords
need not try to explain it otherwise for it is not
the truth. - ' ; ,
I am with;Bryan and all his reform move-:
ments. May God bless him and gve him
strength .to pu&h them, te the frent..
Byron . Hopper, Nebraska. The: reorgan
isation of the Democratic party wtfich has been
haningjloomily over eySry gppdDemocratihce -the.
electiph'is a problem. What'-Nehrakayants
to do is. get behind W.J", and put him wtiere'e!
canreither back a presidential ppssibilfty or ruh
himself, which in my: opinion 1b. the. -best thing
to -dp. rwill- gladly help td prganise this tp.wn,
cpunty and state to tfi'at .advantage. It Vou havi
t any plans -for th& cdmlnlr. reprganixatiph;;; Jbur .
Suggestien would be gla'dly reefyedv. I wish ta
put myself , at your disposal for the-comilr work".
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0. A. Ienderdine, Iowa.God Bless you, Mr
J3ryan, for having courage to.be tru torconvhv
tions eyen though ve don't always agree' with
y'ou-. Never before have (ypu been more needed,
in the councils of our party for I believe we can
Win it we steer by the Jeffersonian Chart Und
not -follow atteF personalities of false" gods. I
nxtrolf -rollt lroanoot tnfnvnr4- -.... .i fll
o ujr 4uauina tue sentiment mat no president v hvu, .ww-v 'uivoi, uui iJmusior pro
of the United SfntAtt -nr Rnnt hn niiwitrBi' r gressiyo Democrats in the future. . -
-j.. io ouiiufcji'8 ui. tne unueu otates out PC the
Jas.:Pi Mairmckrodt, Utah.-rThe plan heqon
ceives is, obyious, feasible, desirable and m un
der th.e law. Jt. is as, it X should expect, Wilson,
Harding, Marshall, with apprPval pf cpngress,
Will carry 4t out at pnee. If wprld peace - is a
good thing (and who can doubt it? ) saying three-or-Xow.,
months' delay -would -remove . a - lot of
blocks analogs in the wuy. . ,'j; '': : 'is..
" : "ivmu, uiw uurgnna. in a renewing
United States without the consent pf the people
uy i mrect referendum.
I am in heartfelt sympathy with Vlr, Bryan;
Fd iaa man ameng men and had he been elect
ed instead pf Mr. Wilson, I am sure that the
United. States would not hhve been in such ceh
dition as it Is today. t
In nearly everyi paper we read th,e cause pf
the Democratic defeat and -the landslide" for the
Kepuoucans. , I have failed to see the real cause
N. P. W New Jersey. I have just read
Mr,. Bryan's statement on the' result of the elec
tion and heartily concur in every conclusion.
Ahove and beyond all causes pf Demecratic de
feat were the lack pf party splidarity and the
president's refusaj tp.recegnlzera'ny co-ordinate
'power or respphsfhility on the part'of the Senate
in our foreign relations
. li 'his arrogant autocracy he flouted every
Mvuivviwi y. nuuut,v viuuyivuuutj. iiuu'in niS arOl-
Of tllfl l1ftflfi;lSrftntln'nl',. 'Tf-Wno if nianHnn'X.l .rn'w-'ifttt '-ft. nrrriivHaina 1.-W(,-i1iA. .. j.x.
during tho campaign nor has it been meh.tiqried'; ' b.Qdy. i the emctatic party' ffha're sVayj&d
my subscriiiion, plee let me 'add a WdrWb!
5 r ii. T v x, - ttIVW ut eraw'-uae we reel
fpr, the relentless war you have made on all
forms of mockery under the guise of denrocra'cv.
Jf5y ??-l Democrats here were inclined tp
critioifcerr, Bryan fpr xiPt giving thparty ticket
a warmer support. I defended Mr. Bryan's course
on the .ground that it. was the probrporation,'
pro-whiskey faction ofwthe;party that was select
ed from pereinct primaries up tp hational delje
gates to the convention. That faction wouldl
naturally opppse anythihg Mr Bryau ' favored
even If they were friehdly to the policy.' (iThe
record otthe: vote on tho profiteering-and-gpy
ernmentbulletin planks wpuld .substaritlate-ithe".
contention , we whp x& in t ayor: ql Tpr'pgfces
must fnob let political apathy defeat tealidembc--racy
again.. Mam thdrpu'ghly wither;. B'r.yan in:
npt watiuflgt nysham; battles: Wheiii
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